#presidential

I had supported Governor George W. Bush over Senator John McCain in the 2000 Rhode Island presidential primary. ↗

— Lincoln Chafee

#george #george w #governor #had #i

At the unveiling at the White House of the presidential portrait, President Bush pointed out that Hillary Clinton was the first sitting Senator in history to have her portrait hanging in the White House. ↗

— Eleanor Clift

#clinton #first #hanging #her #hillary

In the final analysis this congressional race is always going to be a close race, whether there's a presidential race or governor's race or not. But is this a better year? Yes, this would probably be a better year. ↗

— Baron Hill

#analysis #better #close #congressional #final

As lawmakers, we must assure the people of America that our nation will not experience the nightmare of the 2000 presidential election. ↗

— Eddie Bernice Johnson

#assure #election #experience #lawmakers #must

I understand personally that it is frustrating to lose presidential elections by narrow margins. ↗

— James Baker

#frustrating #i #lose #margins #narrow

The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now seem comically wrong to a modern book-reading, movie-going, television-watching, legend-loving American public conditioned to think of him as one of the presidential giants on the order of Washington and Lincoln. ↗

— Russell Baker

#american #american public #commentators #conditioned #down

I work really long hours and work a lot and have done press tours and junkets, but there is nothing like a presidential campaign that I have experienced before...I think at one point we visited three different cities in one state in 12 hours. It's exhausting. ↗

— America Ferrera

#campaign #cities #different #done #exhausting

The people of South Carolina support conservatives who are trying to push real change, and the people of South Carolina expect their presidential candidates to back them up when they show courage. ↗

— Nikki Haley

#candidates #carolina #change #conservatives #courage

Political pandering comes in all shapes and sizes, but every four years the presidential primary bring us in contact with its purest form - praising ethanol subsidies amid the corn fields of Iowa. ↗

— John Sununu

#bring #comes #contact #corn #ethanol

A little tough talk in the midst of a campaign or as part of a presidential debate cannot obscure a record of 30 years of being on the wrong side of defense issues. ↗

— Dick Cheney

#campaign #cannot #debate #defense #issues